†Eoconophorina delfineae Maheu and Nel 2020 (bee fly)
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Insecta - Diptera - Bombyliidae
Full reference: A. Maheu and A. Nel. 2020. The oldest representative of the bombyliid bee fly in the earliest Eocene French amber. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 65:81-83
Belongs to Eoconophorina according to A. Maheu and A. Nel 2020
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MNHN.F.A71306, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Oise amber, Le Quesnoy, which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in the Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais Formation of France.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Oise amber, Le Quesnoy
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